ISBN:
9781614517207
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (300 p)
Series Statement:
Mouton Textbook
Parallel Title:
Print version Good Humor, Bad Taste : A Sociology of the Joke
DDC:
306.4/81
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Niederlande
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Witz
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Humor
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USA
Abstract:
This is an updated edition of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke, published in 2006. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States. This edition includes new developments and research findings in the field of humor studies. Giselinde Kuipers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
This is an updated edition of Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke, published in 2006. Using a combination of interview materials, survey data, and historical materials, it explores the relationship between humor and gender, age, social class, and national differences in the Netherlands and the United States. This edition includes new developments and research findings in the field of humor studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface to the new edition; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction: Jokes, humor, and taste; Researching jokes; Jokes and humor; Humor as a social phenomenon; Humor and taste; The context of Dutch humor; The design of this book; Part I Style and social background; Chapter 2. The joke: Genesis of an oral genre; The joke as oral culture; The spread of the joke; The genesis of the joke; The status of the joke; High and low humor; Conclusion: Changing criteria for judging the joke; Chapter 3. Joke telling as communication style; Joke telling and social background; Jokes and gender
Description / Table of Contents:
Jokes and classGender roles and class cultures; Joking and trade; Humorous communication styles; Gender and speech; Class and speech; Conclusion: Objections to jokes and criteria for good humor; Chapter 4. The humor divide: Class, age and humor styles; Humor styles: High and low, old and young; Style, status, and knowledge; Highbrow and lowbrow humor styles; Arguments for lowbrow humor; Arguments for highbrow humor; The eye of the beholder?; Humor styles and taste variations; Conclusion: Humor styles beyond standardized Dutch humor?; Chapter 5. The logic of humor styles
Description / Table of Contents:
Distinguishing good humor from badCoarseness: Objections to bad humor; "A good sense of humor": Criteria for good humor; Class culture and humor style; The sense of humor and the self: humor style and authenticity; Conclusion: Jokes, taste, and authenticity; Part II Taste and quality; Chapter 6. The repertoire: Dutch joke culture; Jokes and social boundaries; Innocuous jokes: Stupidity and other unseemly behavior; Sexual jokes: From allusion to transgression; Irreverent jokes: Religion, power, suffering and sickness; Hurtful jokes: Jokes at the expense of others
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: The hardening of the humorChapter 7. Temptation and transgression; The balance between funny and offensive; Varying viewpoints on offensiveness; Tempting the laugh; World-class jokes: Joke tellers on joke technique; The importance of joke-work; "Humor is humor": The incompatibility of humor and morals; Conclusion: temptation, transgression, and joke quality; Chapter 8. Sense and sociability; Personal styles of joke tellers; Avoiding or transgressing boundaries; Specialists and generalists; Transgression, identification, and Dutch joke culture(s); Young and old; Men and women
Description / Table of Contents:
Non-college and college-educated peopleConclusion: Mechanisms of taste and the sense of sociability; Part III Comparing humor styles; Chapter 9. National humor styles: Humor styles, joke telling and social background in the United States; Researching humor styles in America; Jokes and humor styles in the United States: Survey results; Transgression and identification in American jokes; American humorous identifications; The social status of the joke in America; American arguments against the joke; American views on a good sense of humor
Description / Table of Contents:
"You gotta have a sense of humor": Humor and the moral self
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1515/9781501510441
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501510441
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